[WikiEN-l] Re: SPOV threatens NPOV

Thu Dec 15 20:21:50 UTC 2005

The Cunctator wrote:

>On 12/15/05, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>When Newton originally presented his theory of gravity it was seriously
>>attacked by his contemporaries as being comprised of "occult forces" rather
>>than being a truly mechanistic physics (like Cartesian physics). Now we all
>>know how that worked out in the end -- not only did Newton triumph, but even
>>what science was ended up being redefined in the process. And it has been
>>redefined many times since then, in different ways and different fields --
>>each time something initially incompatible becomes the accepted norm, it
>>changes not only the evidence, but the entire standard of what counts as
>>evidence and even what counts as argumentation. This is a well-documented
>>phenomena, and even the most positivistic of philosophers acknowledge this
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>>to some degree.
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>What's your point? The goal of Wikipedia is not to predict the future
>but to accurately reflect the present.
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The point is that the trickster is still alive and well and living in 
science.

Ec